Tottenham Hotspur legend Ossie Ardiles has been talking to football.london about Mauricio Pochettino's future and the new stadium delays.

The World Cup-winning Argentine was at Spurs' new megastore on Saturday afternoon, meeting the club's fans in the newly-opened shop.

The store opened in the week Tottenham revealed that they will be playing all of remaining home games in 2018 at Wembley as work on their safety systems at their new stadium is yet to be completed.

Pochettino has called this season his toughest challenge as Spurs boss as he juggles a team full of World Cup players who returned late after pre-season and having to continue to play every match away from Tottenham. By the time the club moves into its new home, Pochettino's team will have played at three different home stadiums this season.

Ardiles, who is a friend of the Spurs boss, believes the club have struck gold with his fellow Argentine.

"Mauricio is doing a great job. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I would not swap Mauricio for any manager, not only in England but anybody in the world," he told football.london.

"After all the things that happened in the World Cup, a lot of players in the semi-finals, when they came back to him and we are only two points from the very top of the Premier League. From my point of view I feel very, very confident."

Mauricio Pochettino

Pochettino's progress at the club has not gone unnoticed and he has been linked to Real Madrid once again due to the struggling start made by Julen Lopetegui in La Liga.

The Spurs manager, who signed a bumper new five-year deal in May, reiterated on Friday that he will be leading Tottenham into their new stadium and Ardiles confirmed that Pochettino won't be going anywhere any time soon.

"For me he doesn't need to tell me because I know exactly how he feels," he said. "He's had opportunities in the past to move but he doesn't want to move. He's very happy here and I hope he continues for a long, long time."

Ossie Ardiles and Ledley King meet Spurs fans at the club's new megastore (Image: Alasdair Gold)

The former Spurs midfielder and manager also had his say on the new stadium and the delays in its opening until 2019.

"At the moment everybody is working incredibly hard on it. It's just a question of time. Of course we have been a little bit disappointed that it's not ready when it was going to be, but we need to wait just a little bit more and it will be there," said Ardiles.

"It's very clear that Tottenham is a team for the future. We have a wonderful squad, a wonderful training ground and we're going to have the best stadium in the world for football. We have a great, great manager so everything is looking very, very rosy right now."

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